Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For thine iniquity teaches thy mouth. And thou choose the tongue of the crafty.
New American Standard Bible
And you choose the language of
King James Version
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Holman Bible
and you choose the language of the crafty.
International Standard Version
Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty.
American Standard Version
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Amplified
“For your guilt teaches your mouth,
And you choose [to speak] the language of the crafty and cunning.
Bible in Basic English
For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
Darby Translation
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Julia Smith Translation
For thy mouth will accustom itself to thine iniquity, and thou wilt choose the tongue of the crafty.
King James 2000
For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose [the] tongue of [the] crafty.
Modern King James verseion
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But thy wickedness teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen thee a crafty tongue.
NET Bible
Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.
New Heart English Bible
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
The Emphasized Bible
For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty.
Webster
For thy mouth uttereth thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
World English Bible
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Youngs Literal Translation
For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
Interlinear
Peh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
4 Yea, thou do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. 5 For thine iniquity teaches thy mouth. And thou choose the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemns thee, and not I. Yes, thine own lips testify against thee.
Cross References
Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
Job 9:22-24
It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
Psalm 50:19-20
Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.
Psalm 52:2-4
Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 64:3
who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
Psalm 120:2-3
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit. He speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
Mark 7:21-22
For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
Luke 6:45
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good, and the bad man out of the bad treasure of his heart brings forth the bad, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
James 1:26
If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.
James 3:5-8
So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.